Word: fender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a car owner cried that postwar models seemed to have been purposely constructed to "damage easy and repair hard." On several new cars the whole engine had to be unbolted and lifted before the crankcase pan could be removed. Fenders had become wholly or partly an integral part of body panels: before smashed fenders could be replaced, the whole panel had to be removed. A Denver dealer who sold and installed a rear fender on a 1948 model for $20.75 charged $85 for the same job on a 1949 model of the same...
Home Ties. In Huntsville, Tex., Convict Levurt Whitehurst, who had escaped from a state prison home, checked back in, explaining, "I went to see my grandma." The Book. In Brooklyn, Joseph Attilio, who made the mistake of denting the fender of a car belonging to Patrolman Edward Baldini, was charged with 1) driving without a license, 2) having improper plates, 3) leaving the scene of an accident, 4) dangerous driving...
...black sedan was stalled in traffic a few minutes before students blocked the streets with a great sign-waving demonstration. They pasted on the front fender a sign: "Down with British Imperialism." I stuck my head out and said: "I'm not British." A bespectacled student in a long blue gown said pleasantly: "I'm sorry." Then he and his friends pasted another sign on the rear door. It said: "Down with British Imperialism and the U.S.A...
Charles Chaplin Jr., 22, booked in Los Angeles on suspicion of intoxication for a little fender-nicking incident, gave a low, morning-after moan: "I feel very badly . . , because of what my Dad will...
...beat. We got expressions just like people in Europe. It used to be you could get into a fight, but now even truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.' They don't even get out to look at a fender...